Alexander Calder
"Rose des sables"
Signed Calder and dated -74. Gouache on paper 75 x 110 cm.
Provenance
Galerie Maeght, Paris.
Linssen Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 1998
Galeria Ynguanzo, Madrid, bought ca 1998.
Exhibitions
Chateau Biron, Dordogne, ”Calder”, June 14th – September 30th 1986. Cat no 32.
Linssen Gallery, Cologne Germany, “Calder retrospective 1898 - 1976”, November 25 1987- January 1988. Cat no 43, Reproduced in color in the catalogue page 70.
More information
Certificate from Adrien Maeght accompanies this lot. This work is registered in Archive of the Calder Foundation New York under application number A12859.
Artist
Alexander Calder was an American Sculptor and artist born in Philadelphia. He initially studied mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, but later changed to study at the Art Students League in New York and at Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. When Calder visited Piet Mondrian’s studio in Paris, the artist felt immense inspiration, facilitating the creation of his abstract art and his joining of the group "Abstraction-Création". He is well known for his Chinese sculptures, and artworks Marcel Duchamp dubbed as “mobiles”. As well as sculptures, Calder also illustratedbooks and magazines at the same time as he also made jewellery. Calder explored the dynamics of movement in his art, diverging from the traditional notion of artworks as static objects.
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